1913 in Belgium
Incumbents
Events
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;April
- 14 April – Socialists call general strike demanding electoral reform.{{Cite news|title=200,000 Belgian Workers Go Out|newspaper=The New York Times|date=15 April 1913|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1913/04/15/100567112.pdf|access-date=27 June 2017}}
- 22 April – General strike ends
- 26 April – King Albert formally opens Exposition universelle et internationale (world's fair) held in Ghent.Davy Depelchin, "The Ghent Universal and International Exhibition of 1913: Reconciling Historicism, Modernity and Exoticism", in Cultures of International Exhibitions 1840-1940, edited by Marta Filipova (Farnham, 2015), p. 185. [https://books.google.com/books?id=8EwhCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA185 Partial preview on Google Books].
;November
- 3 November – Exposition universelle et internationale (world's fair) in Ghent ends.
;December
Publications
- Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 21.
- G. A. Boulenger, The Snakes of Europe (London, Methuen).[https://archive.org/details/b28116550 at Internet Archive].
Births
- 17 January – Werenfried van Straaten, priest (died 2003)
- 21 August – François Devries, footballer (died 1972)
- 15 November – Arthur Haulot, journalist (died 2005)
- 3 December – Omer Vanaudenhove, politician (died 1994)
Deaths
- 29 January – Joseph Van den Gheyn (born 1854), librarian
- 13 June – Camille Lemonnier (born 1844), writer
- 13 August – Hildebrand de Hemptinne (born 1849), abbot
- 9 September – Paul de Smet de Naeyer (born 1843), former prime minister
References
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